so what do you think uh do you know any people from Puerto Rico
uh yes i i used to work with a guy from Puerto Rico when i worked for Hewlett Packard
oh really
and uh he was a native and had gone to school there and got transferred to Colorado where i was living
uh-huh
uh and he had some interesting times getting used to it um
the United States the the language was a little bit different although he did speak English
yeah have you ever been there
it was just some of the excuse me
have you ever been there
i've never been there my dad used to work for DuPont and they built a chemical plant down there i almost moved there when i was in high school
really
yeah
no i've never been there either i've not known but just a few people from there
uh-huh
one uh there was a girl in
in my flight in in uh Air Force basic training actually who was from there
uh-huh
okay
uh my dad flew down there for about a year he was down there about once a month one week per month
uh-huh
and uh
i wanted to move there it sounded like uh a neat place to live an island in the sun you know and uh
oh yeah
it turned out my mom was the only one in the family that didn't want to go because she didn't play golf or tennis and there wasn't really a job for her there
it always sounds more
oh its
i think i think everything always sounds more glamorous than it really is
yeah
every because i spent five years in Europe and everybody goes oh you're so lucky and i'm like well yeah sort of you know it's but having lived there it's not it's not anything like you picture it
uh-huh
yeah
right
you know it's not it's like i still have the fantasies about Hawaii and all that stuff but
yeah i lived in Colorado for a while and people kept saying the same thing to me oh it must have been great
and your just like yeah well sort of right
i go oh it was just a place to live
yeah i was
but um what do you think about about um their situation should they should they become a state
i i think the status quo seems to be working i don't think um from talking to Jerry my friend that lived there that they don't seem um upset about it or anything and
yeah
i think it would upset more people if they tried to change it
really i i think
i'm not opposed to it but when its when the time is right it will probably just kind of happen you know
yeah
i don't know fifty one stars on this flag wouldn't look too good
where are they going to put the other one
yeah if they got another state they could bring two in and fifty two might be able to uh be arranged better i don't know
well where are we where are we going to get another state
yeah i don't know cut California in half or something
or Texas no that's not a good idea
but um i know a lot of the major companies kind of like it because they'll build plants down there because they don't have to pay taxes on the stuff
oh yeah
um and they make i guess it's no income tax there or federal no federal income tax something like that
oh yeah because it's just a territory or is that what it's called a territory
yeah
um yeah i think it's a territory
okay
that makes sense
i mean there's uh lots of tiny islands in the South Pacific that are territories like that they could make states like Guam
or uh
is that a U S territory though
yeah it's a U S territory and it's just we own it or
that would be kind of bizarre
yeah
that's kind of far
well Hawaii is pretty far too think about it
well that's true but there is not a whole lot between here and there
yeah
where you you start dealing with Guam it's like you know flying over all these other places to get there
yeah
it's definitely a way out of the way where where as
My dad was stationed in Guam during the World War Two though
uh-huh
yeah where as Puerto Rico is pretty close by
yeah
which
i don't know
of course you could annex Cuba but they wouldn't like that a bit
no i don't think they would
i don't think they'd go for that
yeah
but actually i knew another guy from Puerto Rico that i went to school with
um-hum
and he was coming he came to America to to go to school
and i think he was going to go back be an engineer out there
oh yeah do you think
he was really funny
both of the ones i met have been really funny guys i don't know if that's uh
if that's true about all Puerto Ricans or not
ones i met have been pretty pretty funny
no i have no idea but uh so you think that mostly they're they're pretty much satisfied with things the way they are
yeah i don't i didn't hear any major complaints about it um i definitely think that we ought to let them decide and not say okay you're a state now or you're your own country or whatever
yeah
exactly
but um let them decide
really that's why i said you know when it when when their time is right when they're ready for it you know that it will come about
yeah
yeah
i think that makes the most sense
okay
hum
well Rick it's been good talking to you
okay have we have we been on for a long enough time
i think so i think its they want like five minutes or something don't they
okay yeah this is this is actually the first time i've i've had someone call me so
oh okay
but uh
it went fine
okay bye-bye
all right well it was good talking to you Becky bye-bye
